Ashley C. Rondini, PhD

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Italian Americans Who Fought for Justice Profile. Brief bios of people of Italian heritage who were committed to social justice.

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There's a term for e'rybody who will know exactly enough Spanish to do dead-on, at-home versions of karaoke during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, even though they aren't necessarily fluent, or even conversational, in Spanish otherwise: "BiSINGual"...see what I did there? 🎤

Yeeees, that is a very familiar phrase!!💄

Not STEM specifically but have had colleagues in academia "helpfully" advise that I not wear lipstick in order to be taken seriously...lest the gloss outshine my multiple graduate degrees, I guess?

In her ASA Footnotes article, “Meeting the Moment,” Ashley C. Rondini @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social @fandmcollege.bsky.social points to ways teachers can help students of sociology cultivate the hope that they will need for the work that lies ahead. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/ASAfallFN

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Thanks for sharing, @pinerosshields.bsky.social --I appreciate you, friend!

Meeting the Moment: Why We Can’t Afford to Let Sociology Classrooms Become Places Where Hope Comes to Die | American Sociological Association In Howard Zinn’s memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press 1994), he tells us that, “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly

Happy to share my latest piece from the @asanews.bsky.social Footnotes magazine...
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Leadership conference: Top 10 resolutions tackle gender-affirming care, immigration, misinformation, payment, and more Recognizing transgender patients and providing gender-affirming care was voted the top resolution by attendees of the 2025 AAP Leadership Conference.

There is some critically important work being done here by the AAP. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

I look forward to reading this! Congrats @jessistreib.bsky.social !

Tomorrow, LGBTQ Youth Will Lose a Lifeline. What Now? The LGBTQ-specific option on the 988 lifeline gave queer youth immediate access to trained counselors. Now, Trump is shutting it down, despite widespread support and need.

Tomorrow, LGBTQ Youth Will Lose a Lifeline. What Now? www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/tomorrow-l...

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice.

Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how:

By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

Since this was written, the "B" representing bisexual Americans in the remaining "LGB" acronym has also been removed from the national memorial literature. It is difficult to keep up with the damage being done. @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social @contexts.org @lettapage.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

My newest short story, "Burn," is out in Variant Lit: lnkd.in/eRu8meQm Thanks to Editors Suzy Eynon and Barbara Lock for believing in it and making it shine!

Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49 A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.

D.C. Summer Session ‘Opened My Eyes to a World I Had Never Known’ An immersive summer program brought 13 students to Washington, D.C., for two weeks to connect with thought leaders in government, nonprofits and community organizations.

Loved this piece about our inaugural F&M in DC Summer Program! 👏👏👏 @fandmcollege.bsky.social
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The title page of Ashley C. Rondini's Contexts culture review: "White Supremacist Danger Narratives." It features a historical image warning of the dangers of Indigenous Americans to White women and children in the United States.

ICYMI: sociologist @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social on the scripts justifying and reinforcing supremacy: "White Supremacist Danger Narratives."

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Thank you @lettapage.bsky.social for your support of this piece!

One of my faves this issue is @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social and @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social's piece, "TQ+: public memory, structural violence, and transgender erasure," on the indelible trans and queer community refusing erasure by Executive Order! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Transgender rights are human rights.

This International Day of Transgender Visibility, Amnesty Feminists remind us that transgender existence is not up for debate.

We must support the transgender community and demand an end to transgender hate crimes.

#TransVisibility

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance Ordinary people have more power than they know.

Some useful guidance in this if you're new to fighting back & welcome, we are all we've got.

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